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A Perfect Guide to Muscular Movement Writing.
Third Year.
CEpAR BAPIDS, IOWA, MAY, 1886.
No. 2.
-THE-
t€e
edte-i'M'
^wmtz-'pi-,
A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Interests
of Penmanship.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, 60c. PEE YEAR.
A. N. PALMER, - - - Editor.
GOODYEAR & PALMER, - publishers
MORE LIBERALITY.
We are too apt to look at things from
our own particular stand-point and
imagine that our peculiar, manner of
doing a thing is the way, that because
our method is right, all others are
wrong.
One teacher of penmanship will have
his pupils analyze, dissect and construct
the letters until the form is fixed in
their minds, till they can tell the length,
breadth and thickness in spaces, quarters and eights of every letter from A to
Z. He will then proceed to teach them
movement and the necessary speed to
make their writing practical.
; When he has accomplished this he
will point with pride to the results of
his method of teaching. He is thoroughly satisfied that his is the correct
way and he stands ready to defend it'
against any who dare assail.
Another will teach movement first
and have his students write rapidly
from the beginning, giving but little attention to formation until they are able
to put down a i certain number of words
or lines in a minute.
He will then gradually introduce
form, analyzing but little and lo! in a
reasonable length of time he has a class
of which he may well be proud.
His method he considers so superior,
that he immediately proceeds, through
the medium of some of the journals devoted to penmanship, to enlighten the
rest of the profession whom he consid
ers have been wandering in the dark,
using a few words of sarcasm in regard
to teachers who spend so much time in
teaching pupils to tear letters apart and
build them up again "all in their
mind."
His brother on the opposition will
promptly answer him with that very
original proposition, "Teach a child to
crawl before he can runl" They will
then proceed to annihilate each other
until they have exhausted their vocabulary, when the readers breathe a sigh of
relief and each of the principals goes on
in his own way, each conscious of
having done his duty in trying to reform the other.
One will tell us that he who uses.or
teaches whole arm movement is an old
fogy, behind the times, on his last legs,
etc., and like the road to the better
country, there is an only way to good
writing and that is exclusively and invariably the muscular movement way.
His principal reasons for the assertions are that he has wholely discarded
the long lever movement and has been
successful.
Another who drills his students on
both whole arm and muscular movement exercises will meekly remind his
one movement brother that he is not
dead yet and can see no reason why he
should turn up his toes for several years
to come simply because his arm occasionally gets off the desk.
And so it goes.
It if quite natural fpr one to think
that his way is better than others, but
one should cultivate a spirit of liberality
towards his fellow creatures who chance
to differ with him on points of minor
importance, remembering that the
method which one uses so successfully
might not in the hands of another prove
equal to that which he already employs.
A. C. Webb,
Nashville, Tenn.
MUSCULAR MOVEMENT—ASSOCIATION OF PENMEN.
Tt has been suggested that the penmen who believe thoroughly in muscular movement writing for practical and
ornamental purposes, and wish to do
all in their power to advance the claims
of this style of writing, form themselves *
into an association for the purpose of
becoming better acquainted and working together harmoniously to secure
better methods of teaching, and if possible to adopt some plan to introduce
this style of writing into the public
schools, and in this way give the masses a practical style of wrting.
. A great amount of good could be accomplished through such an association run on a liberal plan, and we are
in favor of it. What say you brethren?
The columns of the Western Penman are open for discussion on this
subject.
fe* OBITUARY.
From a private source we learn of the
death of Prof. J. M. Swain, of Fenton,
Michigan.

A Perfect Guide to Muscular Movement Writing.
Third Year.
CEpAR BAPIDS, IOWA, MAY, 1886.
No. 2.
-THE-
t€e
edte-i'M'
^wmtz-'pi-,
A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Interests
of Penmanship.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, 60c. PEE YEAR.
A. N. PALMER, - - - Editor.
GOODYEAR & PALMER, - publishers
MORE LIBERALITY.
We are too apt to look at things from
our own particular stand-point and
imagine that our peculiar, manner of
doing a thing is the way, that because
our method is right, all others are
wrong.
One teacher of penmanship will have
his pupils analyze, dissect and construct
the letters until the form is fixed in
their minds, till they can tell the length,
breadth and thickness in spaces, quarters and eights of every letter from A to
Z. He will then proceed to teach them
movement and the necessary speed to
make their writing practical.
; When he has accomplished this he
will point with pride to the results of
his method of teaching. He is thoroughly satisfied that his is the correct
way and he stands ready to defend it'
against any who dare assail.
Another will teach movement first
and have his students write rapidly
from the beginning, giving but little attention to formation until they are able
to put down a i certain number of words
or lines in a minute.
He will then gradually introduce
form, analyzing but little and lo! in a
reasonable length of time he has a class
of which he may well be proud.
His method he considers so superior,
that he immediately proceeds, through
the medium of some of the journals devoted to penmanship, to enlighten the
rest of the profession whom he consid
ers have been wandering in the dark,
using a few words of sarcasm in regard
to teachers who spend so much time in
teaching pupils to tear letters apart and
build them up again "all in their
mind."
His brother on the opposition will
promptly answer him with that very
original proposition, "Teach a child to
crawl before he can runl" They will
then proceed to annihilate each other
until they have exhausted their vocabulary, when the readers breathe a sigh of
relief and each of the principals goes on
in his own way, each conscious of
having done his duty in trying to reform the other.
One will tell us that he who uses.or
teaches whole arm movement is an old
fogy, behind the times, on his last legs,
etc., and like the road to the better
country, there is an only way to good
writing and that is exclusively and invariably the muscular movement way.
His principal reasons for the assertions are that he has wholely discarded
the long lever movement and has been
successful.
Another who drills his students on
both whole arm and muscular movement exercises will meekly remind his
one movement brother that he is not
dead yet and can see no reason why he
should turn up his toes for several years
to come simply because his arm occasionally gets off the desk.
And so it goes.
It if quite natural fpr one to think
that his way is better than others, but
one should cultivate a spirit of liberality
towards his fellow creatures who chance
to differ with him on points of minor
importance, remembering that the
method which one uses so successfully
might not in the hands of another prove
equal to that which he already employs.
A. C. Webb,
Nashville, Tenn.
MUSCULAR MOVEMENT—ASSOCIATION OF PENMEN.
Tt has been suggested that the penmen who believe thoroughly in muscular movement writing for practical and
ornamental purposes, and wish to do
all in their power to advance the claims
of this style of writing, form themselves *
into an association for the purpose of
becoming better acquainted and working together harmoniously to secure
better methods of teaching, and if possible to adopt some plan to introduce
this style of writing into the public
schools, and in this way give the masses a practical style of wrting.
. A great amount of good could be accomplished through such an association run on a liberal plan, and we are
in favor of it. What say you brethren?
The columns of the Western Penman are open for discussion on this
subject.
fe* OBITUARY.
From a private source we learn of the
death of Prof. J. M. Swain, of Fenton,
Michigan.